Twitter etiquette
I like twitter, I really do. At first I think it was a tool to promote self importance to astronomical levels. Then I start to find good people to follow, and I found my job via twitter, and learned the true function of it (at least for me): fast communication and feed.
When a first entered twitter I tried to look for my friends but in those times it wasn’t the popular site that is today in this side of the mother earth. And that was a good thing because.. well, friends will be friends, and for friends there’s Facebook. Now I realize that even if I have good friends been followed on twitter and they are good people, sometimes you have to pull the plug and unfollow them!
Why? My principal reasons are:
- Senseless and over use of tags (Example: #todayiawokefiveminuteslater, #imissthecornerwhereiusedtolive). I’m sorry, but do you know what tags are for? I don’t think is going to be a hot topic soon!
- Too many inner jokes: Sometimes people become too passive aggressive and start to making comments that no one can’t understand.
- Too much personal stuff: Do you have to put every day that you have to go to sleep and 11pm or that you have hungry?
Hey! But they are my friends! Can I tolerate it? Sure! If the tweets weren’t every 5 f*cking seconds!!!
I try to follow people that give interesting stuff (especially for my profession). Because I’m sure that twitter can’t exist only with comments about food or climate.
And what about my tweets? I find useless the excessive RT, so I just try to keep my feed with something that at least gives you nice info or a break from job and a smile. I try to keep personal stuff at minimum, but sometimes you just have to rant about public transport out loud. But at the end of the day, a lot of my followers are spambots, so who cares if I rant.
How about you? Do you like twitter or find it useless? Are some twitter behaviors that you dislike?
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David
7 months ago
Interesting thoughts...! How do you feel about Kontain, being visual updates instead of text updates and with a little more quality over quantity.
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miquito
7 months ago
Good post!
@David: I think Kontain has it's own place in the internet-universe and should not feel stressed about other platforms or try to compete with them. For me Kontain is like my home, but I use twitter to promote what I do on Kontain, as with my Flickr account and my Vimeo presence. As written above I too keep my personal stuff to facebook and the other platforms for business/crazy ideas. All these platforms can live next to each other because they deliver different things.
One interesting thought is what would happen if let's say Kontain and any other platform, like flickr or vimeo made some sort of cooperation...just a thought, but interesting.
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el_chivo
7 months ago
Quoted from: David - "Interesting thoughts...! How do you feel about Kontain, being visual updates instead of text updates and with a little more quality over quantity."
In the always crowded arena of the internet, quality over quantity it’s a must!
What make a social media site great are its people. Kontain is a great tool in hands of great people. I can’t remember a blogging site with such sense of community (even if we’re still a little one). And I think that sense of “home” like miquito says is growing everyday with smart implementations.
For me Kontain it’s not the place to “show” (or shout! like on twitter), it’s a place to “share”.
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